1991 -- In April, Maryland officials sent a shoe fetish suspect to a hospital for treatment after he threatened harm to three people unless they would let him sniff their shoes, but while he was under observation, another sniffer turned up elsewhere in the state: A man tricked a woman into offering him her shoe, telling her that it might contain a valuable ticket. When she handed over the shoe, he lifted it to his nose, peeled back the padding, inhaled deeply, and then asked for her other shoe.
1996 -- This year as usual, summertime brought out foot fetishists, including a man described as age 25 and husky, who posed as a national shoe company representative in August and got at least one woman in Parsippany, N.J., to remove her shoe so he could inspect it nasally, and including a Boston high school teacher who was suspended in June for allegedly sucking the toes of a female student after school.